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10,000 Communities Initiative Expands Community Infrastructure Center with New Partnerships

“These partnerships are designed to reduce project development costs through generative AI, online grant-matching, and other innovative financing techniques,” said Rachel Halfaker, who leads Milken Institute’s CIC effort. “We can’t do this work alone. These additional partnerships will facilitate our ability to help resource-challenged communities in rural and urban areas to build new broadband, clean energy, and other local projects faster.”

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Cincinnati ‘jobs bond’ aims to fuel manufacturing boom in the Midwest

Cincinnati ‘jobs bond’ aims to fuel manufacturing boom in the Midwest

From guest author Rachel Reilly.
If you build it they will come.
An innovative bond issuance will help a public agency in the city of Cincinnati acquire and remediate industrial property in an effort to attract advanced manufacturers and private investment to the region. The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, aka The Port, shared its plan to launch a $100 million “jobs bond” alongside Quantified Ventures during this month’s 10,000 Communities Initiative rally-up in Cincinnati.

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